[filmscanners] Re: my XP laptop is driving me crazy

["Op's" <martin@wollongong.apana.org.au>]

I think that you may have to do a complete reinstall of the operating
system.

When you quote:

> Another potential problem is I may have procured XP at the
> worst possible time, coming as it did on the heels of Microsoft's decision
> to address the security issues, and I have downloaded/installed at least 10
> patches.

This maybe a virus which is doing the rounds through email spam. Virus
checkers don't pick it up. There were a couple of XP patches but not 10.
SP1 addressed the security issues. Are you downloading the XP patches
directly from  Microsoft site?

>>>
>>>>It seems I may have spoken too soon:(  Today it's back to
>>>>freezes and crashes.  Some of the error messages I've seen
>>>>are "Could not complete request because of program error";
>>>>"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error, Program:
>>>>Photoshop.exe";  "R6025-Pure Virtual Function Call".
>>>
>>

One issue that Adobe PShop quotes is that you apply fixed virtual ram at
twice the amount of physical ram - that was in the readme file
somewhere.  I'm not sure if that's still with PS7.

There was one problem that I had with PS5 or 6 was that it locked in w98
or ME not sure now which on my old PII 350 with 384M ram with scratch
disk - after it run for some time  just locked up. So only had the OS
and PShop loaded no problem then loaded a screen saver and it started to
lockup again. I have never run a screen saver again.


Have never come across these errors even on my older computers with
XP./PS6 and have been on XP since its inception - cause 98se and ME were
giving me hell. Applying the service pack did stabilize XP and i've been
running now over seven months without rebuild. (the rebuilds were my
software/scanner ram (hardware) issues and nothing to do with the
operating system.)

rob


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